The word alone carries an unsavory connotation: f-a-t. We trim it from meat, strain it from the puddle surrounding an otherwise nutritious roaster chicken, and never, ever want to think of ourselves as (let alone be told that we are) fat. Even the lowercase form of the word sounds like a screamer, as in F-A-T.

For every brother, son or husband who has watched helplessly as a sister, mother or wife deals with monthly “hormone issues,” there probably is a female who might be thinking, “Not so fast there. Men's health involves hormone issues, too, you know.”

And it's true. In some ways, hormones are non-gender specific. But there also is a group of hormones affecting men's health known as “the male hormones” (with testosterone arguably being the most well known of all).

A sufficient level of testosterone is important not only for building muscle and fueling your sex drive, but is crucial to maintaining bone mass and creating red blood cells. It’s understandable why you would want to increase levels of this important hormone, but how do you raise testosterone naturally?